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The Board of Roma Education Fund has the pleasure of announcing that Mr. Nadir Redzepi was selected as the new Executive Director. The Board has completed the selection process that started in June of 2015. Mr. Redzepi began his service as Executive Director on January 2, 2016.

To mark ten years since its establishment, the Roma Education Fund (REF) hosted a Roma Teachers Conference in Bratislava on November 13, 2015, to bring together Roma teaching professionals working as kindergarten pedagogues, primary or secondary school teachers in a wide range of classrooms and educational settings.

Supported by the Roma Education Fund, the Open Society Foundations' Early Childhood Program and UNICEF Regional Office CEECIS, Roma Early Childhood Inclusion+ intends to aid the appropriate authorities in ensuring the development of unhindered and equal access to quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) services and provision for Czech Roma children, through advocacy rooted in credible and informed research.

The Roma Education Fund presented its programs in the area of accessing rights for quality education of Roma children during the conference “Classrooms beyond Race - Integrated Education for Romani Children,” organized by the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) on October 5-6, 2015 in Belgrade, Serbia.

The Roma Education Fund has sent its Grant Manager, Beata Olahova, and its Country Facilitator for REF in Serbia and Montenegro, Nadja Kocic Rackocevic, to represent its ongoing work with Roma communities in the field of education to the 5th International Review Conference of Roma Women in Skopje, held on October 6-7, 2015.